Thanks Socket. I agree with you about these forks. As expensive as they are you'd think they would come better tuned. :crazy:
Never understood this one size fits all approach to suspension.
To emphasize the point if you had a HS preload spring with a stiffness of 75 lbf/in and set the preload to give a cracking pressure of 5 lbf the change in effective stack stiffness with and without the spring is negligible.
If you wanted to you could add ghost shims to the stack and...
To understand the effect of the HS spring you can draw a simple force balance on the stack.
At the point where the shim stack cracks open the shim lift is near zero so the cracking force is defined by the spring preload.
Lifting the stack beyond that point depends on the combined...
Holy cow! There are a number of misconceptions here.
The preload spring simply increases the force required to lift the shims off of the face i.e. the stack cracking pressure.
The force needed to deflect the stack beyond that point depends on the combined stiffness of the spring and...
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